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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 100 (search)
ushwhackers commenced, and kept up the fire, until we reached Jonesville, county-seat of Lee County, Va., where we had another brisk skirmish for an hour or so, in which the rebels lost several in killed and wounded; we none. We recrossed Cumberland Mountain, at Hauk's Gap, at three o'clock, January second, safe and sound out of Dixie. The expedition was arranged by the Carter family, exiles from East-Tennessee, consisting of General Carter, Colonel Carter, Second Tennessee regiment of volunights only thirty-one hours out of the saddle, the men without any thing hardly to eat, except what they could pick up — generally half-baked corn-bread or corn-meal--all of which they bore without a murmur. As we commenced the ascent of Cumberland Mountain, on the return, our horses commenced giving out, and the road from there to this place is strewn with broken-down horses, saddles, and blankets, and men afoot, making their way to camp the best way they can. The thanks of the command is du